Super Sentai - Season 38
Season 38
Ressha Sentai ToQger
Only those with a great Imagination can see the mystical railway known as the Rainbow Line on which run massive trains known as Ressha. These Ressha are driven by five warriors known as the ToQgers. It is their mission to save towns from the evil forces of the Shadow Line who are using the residents' fear and sadness to establish their own railway to enable the coming of their leader Emperor Z, whose intention is consume light to plunge the world into darkness. The five ToQgers are also childhood friends who are fighting to recover the memories of their hometown after it was consumed by the Shadow Line's evil. Later joined by Akira Nijino, a former Shadow Creep who reformed, the ToQgers begin a campaign to free these "Shadow Towns" from their Shadow Creep Keepers in an attempt to recover their memories while the Shadow Line itself must deal with some opposition among their own subjects.
Episodes
Starting Station: Let's Ride the Limited Express Train
When the evil Shadow Line begins to use their evil train the Kleiner to kidnap children, a young man named Right is amongst those nearly captured. He then sees the prismatic Rainbow Line and its Ressha trains appear, along with four of the ToQgers, inspiring him to help protect the children with them.
Station 2: We Are Here
The ToQgers arrive at a train station taken over by the Shadow Line which has been renamed "Kettougahara", controlled by the Shadow Line's Saber Shadow who makes everyone duel. The ToQgers do their hardest to protect a boy who is scared at what the Shadow Line has done to his neighborhood and figure out a way to end the Shadow Line's control.
Station 3: Desperate Once Convinced
After Ticket warns the ToQgers that the Ressha trains will not wait for them, Kagura is left behind and despite her fears must take on Chain Shadow by herself.
Station 4: Be Careful Not to Forget Anything
When having some time off at a station stop, Tokatti loses his Rainbow Pass somewhere, forcing him to follow the others on standard forms of transportation. While Right, Hikari, and Kagura battle Stove Shadow, Mio helps Tokatti search for his missing pass.
Station 5: Beyond the Missing Line
The Rainbow Line makes an abrupt stop at a river, requiring the use of the Car Carrier Ressha to cross, but their Imagination is not enough to power it. As the other ToQgers try to come up with a way to cross, Bucket Shadow starts to collect darkness by making people feel hungry via eating every scrap of food from them. However, Right comes across a campsite and campers free from the Shadow Monster's gluttonous rampage.
Station 6: What Are We Looking For
Right managed to find one of the missing Support Ressha while out in the woods, so he and Tokatti go out to find it. However, General Schwarz has been spying on the ToQgers and heads out to capture the Support Ressha for the Shadow Line.
Station 7: Dejected, Demotivated
After getting too emotionally involved in a ninja movie, Kagura accidentally breaks Hikari's kendama toy, and thinks that he won't forgive her. However, the Ressha stops at a new Dark Station where Hanko Shadow has made everyone lose their motivation, and Right, Tokatti, and Mio fall under his spell.
Station 8: Rainbow Line's Big Explosion
The signal from the lost Diesel Ressha is found, but because it is so weak there might be a chance it cannot work again. Right is sent out to find it, as his strong Imagination can restore it. They learned that the previous enemy they encountered placed a bomb on Tokatti that is strong enough to destroy the Resshas, when the Ressha's brakes are discovered to be broken, everyone fears that the Shadow Line has planted a bomb on them.
Station 9: Feelings Are a One-Way Ticket
While the Ressha are under maintenance from the previous battle, the group uses the Support Ressha. At the next stop, Right wants to try a new buffet, but Mio meets someone apparently from her past who was in love with her.
Station 10: Tokatti Dies at Sunset
After Tokatti meets a young man named Hiroki Fujisawa who seems to be unable to see the Ressha, Type Shadow sentences Tokatti to die at sunset.
Station 11: The Emperor of Darkness
While the ToQgers enjoy a day out at an amusement park, Right meets a young man with balloons who seems odd. Baron Nero leads an offensive against them in order to welcome the Emperor of Darkness onto the Shadow Line, and also has a particular interest in the man with the balloons.
Station 12: The Rainbow Commuter Pass
The other ToQgers can no longer see the Ressha and are seemingly devoid of their Imagination. Right tries to get through to them, but Lamp Shadow reveals to him that Z has hypnotized all of them to forget their time on the Rainbow Line. Right must figure out how to get them back to normal, while also dealing with new memories of their childhood home.
Station 13: Run Fire Extinguisher
A series of attacks from Kuliner Robos leaves the main Ressha in dire need of repairs, once again leaving the Support Ressha and Diesel-Oh all that the ToQgers can use. The Conductor warns them that they must find other Support Ressha in order to bolster the powers of Cho ToQ-Oh. While Right and Mio are out searching, Loupe Shadow appears, and throws Mio into a powerful rage.
Station 14: Perplexed Detective, Famous Detective
While stopping at the next station, Right, Tokatti, Mio, and Kagura are all arrested for a crime they did not commit, because the cop who arrested them is incompetent. Hikari must now try to discover the true culprit and free his friends.
Station 15: The Thing In Your Heart
After it is revealed that Mio has the weakest Imagination of the group, they try to teach her how to improve her Imagination. However, the appearance of Hammer Shadow and the strange creature Mikey complicate plans.
Station 16: The Dangerous Special Train
Tokatti and Kagura uncover a Shadow Line plot to make children unusually happy, but Kagura must also deal with the young girl Aoi who says her brother has been kidnapped by the Kuliners taking children throughout the city.
Station 17: The Sky After the Rain
The Conductor reveals that he has commissioned the transformation items for the sixth ToQger, and a Rainbow Line maintenance worker named Zaram, a former member of the Shadow Line, has not been chosen to be ToQ 6gou. Right gets off the train to talk to him about becoming their sixth member, but Zaram doesn't wish to be involved any further, particularly when he reveals his Shadow monster form. However, after the battle against Schwarz, he still doesn't want to be on the team and walks off.
Station 18: And What Do We Call You?
Although Zaram has left the Shadow Line and has become ToQ 6gou, he does not wish to remain with the ToQgers. When Ring Shadow traps people by putting rings with their names on their heads, Zaram, who should have eschewed his old Shadow name, must find a way to help the ToQgers and escape his former shackles as a Shadow.
Station 19: Now Departing! Build-Dai-Oh
While Tokatti is trying to befriend Akira, the Ressha gets trapped in a mine collapse orchestrated by a Kurainer Robo, forcing Tokatti and Akira to work together to find ToQ 6gou's personal Ressha.
Station 20: Smiling is Dangerous
Jack-in-the-Box Shadow's ability to send people flying away from him if they laugh affects all the ToQgers except Akira, leading the others to help Akira find his sense of humor or else he may be killed
Station 21: The Bride is on the Run
Soap Shadow's ability to switch people's minds and bodies switches Gritta and Mio just as Gritta is to be married to Emperor Z.
Station 22: Birth of the Empress
Mio suddenly recovers a memory of their hometown, in that around this time of year they had a festival for the stars, and Right remembers as well. As they search for their hometown, the wedding of Emperor Z and Miss Gritta commences, and General Schwarz takes over the Ressha in the ToQgers' absence.
Station 23: Holding Hands
The ToQgers must defeat Miss Gritta and General Schwarz while trying to recover their memories of their long lost home town.
Station 24: Making It Past the Junction
To find their hometown Subarugahama, the ToQgers must move the Ressha onto the Shadow Line to free it from the darkness engulfing it, but the shadows engulfing the junction point keeps them from using their powers
Station 25: Fairy Tales Sprung to Life
In the next Shadow Town, the ToQgers come across various fictional characters, with Tokatti's favorite childhood superhero Ryo Knight appearing before him to encourage him, but all is not as it seems.
Station 26: Battle in the Bathhouse
At the next stop, the ToQgers are perplexed to find Kuros but no Shadow Kaijin. However, Kagura and Akira discover that something odd is happening at the local public bath.
Station 27: A New Power
Right tries to use the Hyper Ressha to liberate the next Shadow Town, but his body cannot handle the strain. Elsewhere, new members of the Shadow Line appear.
Station 28: Being Lame is Cool
Madame Noir uses her powers to turn Right against the other ToQgers, with Tokatti leading the group to get their friend back.
Station 29: Linkup Point with the Oncoming Train
General Schwarz approaches the ToQgers so they can join forces to defeat Emperor Z.
Station 30: The Birthday Celebration
Kagura regains a memory that it is Mio's birthday today and plans to bake her a cake and throw her a surprise party, but while she is baking the other ToQgers are attacked by Wig Shadow whose wigs will kill them once a bird hatches from a nest on the top of their heads.
Station 31: Hyper Ressha Terminal
The ToQgers travel to the Hyper Ressha Terminal to meet the Rainbow Line President, and Emperor of Darkness Z decides to take the opportunity to take over the terminal himself.
Station 32: Determination
After the President of the Rainbow Line disbands the ToQgers, Right feels he is wrong and insists that he and the others continue the fight against the Shadow Line.
Station 33: Decisive Karate Match
With their memories back, Right and Hikari must use their training in karate from Right's grandfather to defeat a Shadow Monster who has turned the people around the next Dark Station into his fighters, rather than Kuros.
Station 34: Love Furor
While trying to battle Billiard Shadow, Mio is accosted by a man who has fallen in love with her. To avoid the man's affections, Mio says that Akira is her boyfriend, but this does not go down well with Tokatti.
Station 35: The Stolen Terminal
With the Hyper Ressha Terminal occupied by the Shadow Line forces, the President decides to authorize the ToQgers to use all thirteen of their Ressha together to get it back, but first, they must get the Drill Ressha back from General Schwarz.
Station 36: Dreams are 100 Points
Hikari finds their old homeroom teacher is still alive, as she had left town to go to university, and he leads the others in protecting her from Fountain Pen Shadow's failure attack so she could tell them the location of Subarugahama.
Station 37: Unreasonable Quiz
In the next Shadow Town, Keeper Knight forces the ToQgers to take a quiz, leaving Tokatti unsure of how he should answer due to being asked about Mio.
Station 38: Let's Make a Movie
The Ressha stops at a station under the power of Film Shadow, leading the ToQgers to help produce a rival movie to defeat the monster.
Station 39: Beginning of the End
With Christmas approaching, Imagination begins to run wild which makes the Shadow Line weaker. Right, however, realizes Akira is missing, while General Schwarz plans an offensive against Emperor Z and various defeated Shadow Creeps suddenly revive one after another.
Station 40: Who Is He? He Is Whom?
Akira, as Zaram, joins General Schwarz in his assault on Castle Terminal, but someone else gets the AppliChanger and attacks the ToQgers as ToQ 6gou.
Station 41: The Christmas Battle
Subarugahama is discovered to be kept under the Castle Terminal, leading the ToQgers to attempt an assault on the castle in order to free their hometown.
Station 42: Words to Reach You
Right wants to make an assault on Castle Terminal to free Subarugahama, but Akira and Mio realize that he is being too headstrong. Wagon reveals that she can deliver a letter for them, but it must contain their true feelings of things and Tokatti is not ready to commit to that.
Station 43: Door That Won't Open
When Dollhouse Shadow attacks the ToQgers, Hikari and Kagura are trapped inside its dollhouse which will burn and kill them if they cannot find a way out or if the others cannot stop it.
Station 44: To Subarugahama
Miss Gritta helps the ToQgers reach Castle Terminal to save their hometown, but Emperor Z still stands in their way.
Station 45: Home After You're Gone
The ToQgers have managed to free Subarugahama and Tokatti has figured out a way for them to become children again, but Right is not sure what to do after transforming into Dark ToQ 1gou in his fight with Emperor Z.
Station 46: The Final Destination
Akira stops Right from taking on Emperor Z as Dark ToQ 1gou on his own as he fears for his safety and promises to fight by Right's side. Elsewhere, the other ToQgers, as children once more, go to their secret base and find something completely unexpected.
Terminal Station: The Shining Ones
The massive monster's darkness has engulfed Right, the other ToQgers on the Resshas and the whole city. Right cannot face Zed even using the darkness and he is unable to imagine himself being victorious. Just when he has run out of options, the other ToQgers appear to save him. Then, among the darkness they can see the lights of the lamps for the Star Festival.
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